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Indian embassy begins contract attestation

Dubai: After a gap of nearly three months, Kuwait has resumed attestation of contracts relating to Indian workers that will enable them to seek jobs in the country.

Last month, the Kuwait embassy and the consulate in India resumed stamping of visas. Hundreds of jobseekers were stranded in wake of the impasse that began in December 2007.

The Indian Embassy in Kuwait started attestation of documents on March 24, Indian Ambassador to Kuwait M. Ganapathy said.

Kuwait resumed attestation of contracts relating to Indian workers after several rounds of talks between the two nations. The decision on a common contract for all unskilled Indian workers was reached at an Indo-Kuwait joint working panel on labour in February.

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally communicated to the embassy the approval of the employment contract prepared by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour.

But the row over contracts pertaining to domestic labour remains unresolved. The Kuwait side has the draft contract from India which it is studying, the envoy said.

The dispute arose over some new conditions in the labour contract involving both the private and the public sector. Kuwait reportedly rejected the move arguing that the contract model would be in accordance with its labour norms. — PTI

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